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guerrillas are equipped with Red Chinese mortars and antiaircraft guns; they eat jam from Communist Bulgaria; they train Moslem orphans to be carpenters and welders on machines from the Soviet Union...
...Strategic Reserve, increased the active fleet by more than 70 vessels and tactical air forces by nearly a dozen wings, expanded antiguerrilla forces and modernized weapons and ammunition. He promised a further military strengthening of U.S. forces in 1962, but pledged also "a supreme effort to break the log jam on disarmament and nuclear tests . . . until the rule of law has replaced the ever-dangerous use of force. The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his executioner. Nor has mankind survived the tests and the trials of thousands of years to surrender everything including...
Snow and subfreezing temperatures do little to cool the enthusiasm of the hardy horse players who jam West Virginia's Charles Town Race Course each day during the long winter: 30,000 were on hand last week. Pockets bulging with Mason jars of moonshine, Shenandoah farmers huddled over their tout sheets; Baltimore businessmen traded tips with pin-striped Washington politicians. For hundreds of other two-buck bettors from New York and Philadelphia, the day at the races had begun at 6 a.m., when they boarded special buses for a five-hour trek to the track...
...Biggest Jam. By 1953 Denverites were proud of Barnes and reluctantly let him go when Baltimore asked him to take on its spectacular traffic problems. There he set up intricate communications systems to help in spotting troubles. A sharp troubleshooter himself, he frequently got into his car and told his driver: "Go find me the biggest jam there is going on in town right now." Once there, Barnes doped out improvements or corrections on the spot. "I never saw a traffic snarl yet that you couldn't do something to remedy," he says...
...problem started when the FAA discovered that Washington's National Airport was overcrowded--a discovery hastened somewhat on an unforgettable afternoon several years ago when an aerial traffic jam over the Capital threw the entire East into chaos and put every flight on the coast two hours behind schedule. The airlines began scheduling their flights through Friendship, located midway between Baltimore and Washington...